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Quzhou
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qūzhóu Qúzhōu Qǔzhōu
English
Alternative forms
en Ch'ü-chou Wade-Giles
en Chuchow
Pronunciation
chü′jō′en 1952 Küchow or Ch’ü-chou Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 987 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/987/ 1
en Qu zhou
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 曲周.
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Handan province/Hebei c/China.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 曲周
Mandarin: cmn 曲周
Japanese: ja
Etymology 2
thumb|Map including QUZHOU (National Imagery and Mapping Agency NIMA, 1996)
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Quzhou/Ch'ü-chou 28°55′N 118°50′E, romanization of the en cmn 衢州.
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Zhejiang c/China.
en 09 July 2013 Pilot of crashed Asiana plane still in Boeing 777 training https://web.archive.org/web/20130711024655/https://www.france24.com/en/20130708-usa-san-francisco-plane-crash-asiana-crew-attempted-abort-landing 11 July 2013 w:France 24 The two dead girls, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were friends from the Jiangshan Middle School in Quzhou, in the prosperous eastern coastal province of Zhejiang.
en 27 June 2021 Kristin Huang Chinese Hui Muslims trigger storm by wearing traditional dress to event to promote ethnic unity w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20210627110615/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3138934/chinese-hui-muslims-trigger-storm-wearing-traditional-dress https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3138934/chinese-hui-muslims-trigger-storm-wearing-traditional-dress June 27, 2021 1563-9371 648902513 Politics https://archive.ph/xxryd The Go tournament – a traditional Chinese board game also known as Weiqi – in Quzhou, a city in Zhejiang province, was designed to promote “participation and communication” among the members of China’s 56 designated ethnic minority groups.
Translations
prefecture-level city in China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 衢州 keoi4 zau1
Mandarin: cmn 衢州 Qúzhōu
References
Further reading
Quzhou
en 1998 Quzhou Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2559 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2559/ 3
en 2-syllable words